Tejas Gawande
@tejas
Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
Tejas Gawande
@tejas
Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
Obsession > Talent
It's important to recognize we're in the lineage of art movements...I'm sure...you're trying to challenge yourself to invent something new. Try to be so avant-garde, that has zero [connection to the past]. That's impossible...We exist off the backs of many other things in iterations before us. So once you think about us as a collective, you then... See more
Build on the work of a mentor (dead or alive). Odd are, these mentors did the same.
Good things take time. Some of the best companies took many years before they found the right recipe
Writing as an act of discovering and connecting new ideas
In a 2019 study, 98 professional writers and 87 physicists recorded their most creative idea each day, as well as what they... See more
Create time for Mind Wandering
Trust the exponential. Take the long term view
What is a good way to riff on existing work? Small 3% changes.
Great ideas take time